The majority of us will have heard Stephen Hawking’s most famous line: “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” A plethora of work demonstrates Hawking was, unsurprisingly, onto something with these sentiments, both mentally and physically. Read More

Observing Hebden Bridge from afar, you’d be forgiven for thinking we were in the age of Sylvia Plath, the troubled queen of modern literature buried in a corner of the town. The mill chimneys – constructed of no-nonsense Yorkshire grit – guard over the town as a sulphur-caked memorial of...Read More

Kirstie Shearman reports on the landmark trial, sponsored by the University of Warwick, which reveals that adrenaline increases survival rates after cardiac arrests, but potentially at the cost of severe brain damage. Read More